But ultimately, the speech was directed at Obama, for whom she saved the strongest attacks. "It's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs, but not a single major law or reform, not even in the state Senate? This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting and never use the word 'victory' except when he's talking about his own campaign."
After getting in a dig at Obama's soaring rhetoric and dramatic setting at the Democratic National Convention, she asked, "What exactly is our opponent's plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer -- the answer is to make government bigger, and take more of your money, and give you more orders from Washington, and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world.
America needs more energy; our opponent is against producing it. Victory in Iraq is finally in sight, and he wants to forfeit it. Terrorist states are seeking nuclear weapons without delay; he wants to meet them without preconditions. Al Qaeda [Images] terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America, and he's worried that someone won't read them their rights."
Because Alaska is one of America's most oil-rich and natural gas rich states, Palin also pushed her qualifications as an expert on energy issues.
To confront the threat that Iran might seek to cut off nearly a fifth of the world's "energy supplies, or that terrorists might strike again at the Abqaiq facility in Saudi Arabia, or that Venezuela might shut off its oil discoveries and its deliveries of that source, Americans, we need to produce more of our own oil and gas. And take it from a girl who knows the North Slope of Alaska: We've got lots of both."
Image: The Palin family with John McCain at the RNC
Photograph: Paresh Gandhi
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